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Based on their analysis, the State has determined that the Hampstead Hospital and Residential Treatment Facility (HHRTF) would best accommodate the needs of a small but highly complex population of young people who require placement in a secure facility.
Only one claim has been settled under the Youth Development Center Settlement Fund in the first quarter of this year.
Just days ago, the individual responsible for the agency confirmed that children at SYSC are strip searched. They are strip searched every time they leave and return to the facility (going to court, medical appointment, or a family visit.
Shaheen & Gordon, P.A., has settled the first claim under New Hampshire’s YDC Settlement Fund on behalf of a client who was sexually and physically assaulted at YDC in the 1970s, according to a news release issued Wednesday.
Gov. Chris Sununu signed SB 1 into law Tuesday delaying the closure of the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester formerly known as YDC.
With the closing of the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, formerly known as YDC, required in just five weeks, lawmakers are now scrambling to pass a new bill to create a new facility and extend the closure date.
The two lead prosecutors on the Youth Development Center criminal case, including the head of the state Task Force charged with investigating the decades of physical and sexual abuse, are off the case after both filed notices with the court in recent days.
A priest in the Somascan Order has apparently been removed from his post as pastor at a Houston parish after several New Hampshire lawsuits allege sexual abuse at the Somascan-run home Pine Haven home for troubled boys in Allenstown.
Attorney General John Formella has given notice to former residents of the state’s YDC/SYSC and similar facilities that they may be entitled to file a claim with the state’s new $100 million-dollar YDC Settlement Fund, but the attorney representing about 900 victims said the program is destined to fail.